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Anthonie tied october 15, 1897.

TQ all whom it 71ml/ zzo/cerne p Be it known that I, GEORGE B. noonALL, 'of Sanford, county ot' York, State of Maine,

khave invented an Improvement in llusli Fab- 5 ric, of which the following description, in coni neetion with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings repl resenting like parts.

' l'hisinvcntion has for its object the pro- I ro duction in a novel manner of 'a plush fabric or a -pile fabric presenting a cut-pile face. l-ly any novel method the face of the fabric may present atintervals, according to thedesign it is desired to produce, incnt and uncut portions l Inaccordance w'ith my invention lrst take a piece of loopedpile fabric 'Woven in any usual manner and subject it to the action of size,^whieh thoroughly permeates the pile and preferably also the back ot' the fabric, and when the size becomes dry the loops are stiffened, so that they will normally stand erect from the backing, and the loops are held securely in the backing by the size, so that when the standing sized andstiened loops are being cut or sheared to make the plush the loops 'cannot be accidentally torn or pulled ont te the detriment of the fabric. Then to produce a plush showing at its face a design or figure I have only todepress a portion of theized, dried, and uncut pile-loops'by the action of a suitable pattern-plate or die, and while so depressed I cut the stiiened standing pile and thereafter wash out or remove the size from the fabric, and-, freed from size, the previously-depressed uncut pile-loops are raised Aand stand'in the surrounding field of cut pile to present the desired design. The loops are cut While. stiifened bythe dried size yet on out, leaving the pile soft, elastic, and pliable.

` p Figure 1 shows, in face View, a portion of them, and thereafter the size will be washed Serial No. 855,271- (No specimens.)

the standing pile cut. Fig. C is a central lonview showing part of the'fabric Fig. 5 with the sizev removed to let the uncut pile rise in the field of the ent pile.

my invention, l weave pile fabric, itpresentinga back awith/a series of standing uncut loops l), the loops being composed et any usual or suitable material, such as coinwool, or otlierplush. sized heavily, preferably on the face and back, the size 'perimeating thoroughly the pile and back, so that `when dried the pile and back areso stiffened that the pile may be cnt and the pile-loops not be pulled ont ef the backing during the cutting operation. y Then l take the sized and dried pile fabric and subject its pilefaee to the action of a suitable embossingpattern applied to the surface of a suitable roll or die having projecting surfaces ceri-esponding in shape with the design to vbe produced and press the same firmly on the sized fabric, thus depressing or crushing down in figure or design, as at c, a portion of theslzed pile-loops, leaving them depressed or crushed down belov the level of the standing pileloops, and thereafter the dried standing pileloops may be ent bythe action of a suitable rotary or; other cutting-knife to leave eut loops e for the face of the plush. This patdesired. After-this the size may be Washed from the fabric and the depressed or crusheddown uncut pile-loops Z1 may then be raised, so' that they will stand up, as in Fig. 7, and orm part of the face of the fabric andshow the figure or design.

. The plush fabric containing patterns or iigures as described will pesent aseries ol' uncut .pile-loops in a eldef cut pile-loops, and the proportion of the uncut loops to the cut .loops may vary accordingly to 'taste and the design to be produced.

The sizing of the pile-loops at the face is of great advantage, as it enables the embossing-pattern to act on a defined portion of the 'face of the fabrie and form a clean-cut embossed figure, and the sizing of the back is also of material advantage, as the size cements the pile-loops and back together, so

gitudinal section of Fig. 5, and Fig'. 7 an edge `inonly used in the manufacture of mohair,-

This pile fabric is then tern or roll may be more or less heated, as

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To malte a plushiabric in accordance with llOl that there is no danger of pulling out the loops during the cutting operation.

I sm swore that it has been proposed in a British patent, No. 2,5193 of 186i), to apply a slight stil'fening to the buck of a pile fabric, so as to hold in the loops, leaving this slight stiffening permanently in thefabrie, it being se slight as not to affect the plush or loop side 0f the fabric; but my invention is quite distlnot and radically di lerent from this. I size tho face of the fabric, and this sizing; is heavy, so that the loops-stand up stiff to be cut,and

this sizing must be washed out, so as to givel bending und becoming delleetcd from the entting-knives.

Having described my invention, what I claim` ns new, and desire to'seenro by Letters Patent, is

1. 'lho.herein-describedmethod of producing plush fabric showing at its face a ligure or design, which consists in sizing the uncut pile-loops, drying said sized fabric, dein-essing or crushing down below the level of adjacent pile-loops, a portion of said dried, sized, uncut loops, thus leaviniz,r some ol the sized and dried loops standing,r and still and others depressed; cutting the standiin,r loops to form the plush face', and removing,r the size from the fabric which softens the saine and permits the previously-depressed uncut loops of pile to rise and show uncut loops in a field of eut loops in design, substantially as doscribed.

2. 'lhe herein-described method of producing plush fabric, which consists in heavily sizing the uncut pile-loops forming; the face of the fabric; drying said heavily-sized piie loops, rendering,r them sti il forst andingagainst the cutting operation; cutting the loops to form the plush fnee; and removingr the size,

Kleavin'r; the eut loops sol't and pliable, substantially as described.

ln lstiin'ony whereof l have signed my namelothis specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

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Witnesses:

Gmo. W. Hnsoonv, llliliuiania'r A. DUNN. 

